Every woman thinks she's one of the rare good ones with appropriate emotional responses, and any guy who reacts negatively is clearly crashing out and emotionally immature
The Neil Gaiman example later in this thread is absolutely evergreen because he's such a perfect case study for "terrible people can make very good and very progressive, empathetic pieces of art". The sooner we stop conflating someone's morality with their work the better.
The phrase comes from an 1893 short story “An Alpine Divorce” by Scottish-Canadian author Robert Barr. In the satirical, dark tale, an unhappily married couple vacations in the Swiss Alps. The husband plots to murder his wife by pushing her off a cliff. In a twist ending (reminiscent of O. Henry), she has already framed him for murder and jumps to her death, leaving him to face the consequences
It seems obvious to me that a ton of male anxiety about not having sex is actually about some combination of status anxiety and desire to be loved and not, like, the mechanical act of sex for its own sake.
I love how 90% of AITA & AmIOverreacting Reddit posts are like
“My loved one is Satan incarnate, & when I pushed back, they cried & said I was mean. AITA?”
This is really, really, really simple, and doesn't require one to know a single thing about Star Wars or "the lore" or "the books" or any such thing. You just have to ask one simple question: if this obvious weapon is this insanely powerful, why was it never used before or again?
@downbadcomment When a woman loves you, she’ll invent every excuse to defend you. If she dislikes you, she’ll invent every excuse to blame you. It’s that simple.
flip the genders.
if i had a crush on a man who ignored me for years, then he called me up and he was suddenly interested in me because i could help take care of his child?
i wouldn't. why? because at that point, i wouldn't think it's about him even liking me, i would think it's a matter of convenience after 10 years.
@Mikearice@kasratweets That's... the whole idea.
We took an animal that will literally eat corpses while swimming in its own feces, and we made bacon out of that... using nothing but slop.